Shapes Quotes · Page 39

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

— Helen Dunmore

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them…

— Lynne Rae Perkins

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape…

— Hunter S. Thompson

This is the shape I'm in for the tournament. I feel or I felt extremely good before the match, and I did…

— Andy Murray

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

— William Shakespeare

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam…

— Charlie Hunter

I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks…

— Raymond Cruz

Things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take…

— Warwick Davis

We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs...…

— Ned Yost

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite…

— Fred Barnes

Kira: “Why did Sei choose death? Was it simply to end his pain? Or…No matter what shape he was in or how…

— Fuyumi Soryo

Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table,…

— Claire Vaye Watkins

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to…

— John Grisham

I am nature. Nature is me. What I create is what I must create. That I create it is fundamental. I am…

— Jack Shadbolt

He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath.…

— Cassandra Clare

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept…

— Carl Jung

Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On…

— Philip Jose Farmer

For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took…

— Carl Ludwig

Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the…

— Lisa Kleypas

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and…

— Janet Frame

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

— Paula Radcliffe

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

— John Kessel

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

— Edwin Paxton Hood

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size,…

— Henry Moore

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

— M. Russell Ballard

I am a believer, I am believer that we shape and create the life that we choose, and I believe that the…

— Kai Greene

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

— Clark Coolidge

While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as…

— Lucy Grealy

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life…

— Sean Wilentz

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

— Vin Diesel

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get…

— Alessandra Ambrosio

I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any…

— Rush Limbaugh

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

— Herb Kohl

I care a lot about Colorado. I consider it a state that is helping to shape the future.

— Hillary Clinton

I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't…

— Eleanor Mondale